The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 51
... shell- keep . " Two of the finest of these shell - keeps may be seen at Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight ( 43 ) and at Arundel in Sussex ( the little gatehouses are later additions ) . The Round Tower of Windsor was built as a shell ...
... shell- keep . " Two of the finest of these shell - keeps may be seen at Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight ( 43 ) and at Arundel in Sussex ( the little gatehouses are later additions ) . The Round Tower of Windsor was built as a shell ...
Page 52
... shell - keep . This arrangement seems to be unique , and in the details of the new stone hall I fancy I can detect the hand of that interesting character Maurice the Engineer , designer of the great towers of Newcastle and Dover . With ...
... shell - keep . This arrangement seems to be unique , and in the details of the new stone hall I fancy I can detect the hand of that interesting character Maurice the Engineer , designer of the great towers of Newcastle and Dover . With ...
Page 86
... shell - keep . " During the century some of these keeps were embellished by the addition of a little gatehouse . At Lewes in Sussex the shell - keep was improved , appar- ently about 1300 , by the addition of a pair of fine semi ...
... shell - keep . " During the century some of these keeps were embellished by the addition of a little gatehouse . At Lewes in Sussex the shell - keep was improved , appar- ently about 1300 , by the addition of a pair of fine semi ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 7 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 58 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chepstow Chilham circular constructed crenellated cross-wall curtains defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortified fortress fourteenth century gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly later latrines lofty lord main floor masonry Maxstoke mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet triforium twelfth century upper usually wall-towers Yorkshire